Category: ForbesWomen

Female-Led Mental Health App Sesh Closes $3 Million Seed Round, Offers Affordable And Accessible Mental Health Support

Sesh is a platform and a mental health app on a mission to make mental healthcare accessible, starting with online group support.

Melinda Gates’ Prescription For Supporting Strong Women

It starts with recognizing the work of caregiving and ends in the boardroom, the billionaire philanthropist tells the 2020 Forbes Power Women Summit.

Howard President And Bristol Myers Squibb CEO: Achieving Healthcare Equity Means Changing The Way People Think

At the 2020 Forbes Healthcare Summit, Wayne Frderick and Giovanni Caforio shared similar strategies for addressing the industry’s disparity issues.

At-Home Health Testing Company Everlywell Raises $175 Million Series D Round At A $1.3 Billion Valuation

The mail-order testing kit company hit unicorn status this year thanks to a first-of-its-kind Covid-19 test.

Kegg’s Kristina Cahojova On The Complexity Of Conception Journey, Raising $1.5 Million In Seed And Why FemTech Is The Next Big Thing In Asia

Kristina Cahojova is the founder and CEO of Lady Technologies, Inc., and inventor behind kegg, a 2-in-1 fertility tracker built to detect a woman’s fertile window by sensing changes in the vaginal environment and cervical fluid, which can also be used …

Scotland Will Be The First Country To Make Period Products Free

The goal of the legislation is to eliminate “period poverty.”

Meet The Female CEO Bringing Men’s Health Initiative Movember To Women

The facial hair-driven movement Movember may be a pioneer of men’s health, but the organization’s success has been, in part, thanks to its female participants. Now, with Michelle Terry as Movember’s new CEO, the initiative is focusing on women more tha…

Breaking Barriers So Psychedelic Experiences Can Become Mainstream

As research shows the benefits of psychedelics, entrepreneurs are building the foundations for them to become generally available and accepted.

Expert Warns Cold Chain Infrastructure Overhaul Needed For Covid-19 Vaccine Rollout

Lenias Hwenda, an immunologist and international health expert from Zimbabwe has warned the cold-chain logistics of distributing an RNA vaccine for Covid-19 are going to be challenging for most lower-middle-income countries and rural areas. #globalso…

How One Company Is Helping Kids Cope During The Coronavirus

In the thick of the pandemic, Sproutel, a patient-centered innovation and design company, and committee for Children, a global nonprofit dedicated to fostering children’s safety and well-being through social-emotional learning(SEL), released their newe…